Syllabus
Main types and properties Order parameters Phase transition from the point of Landau theory Distorted state and boundary effects Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics. Influence of electric and magnetic field Statistical physics (theory of Onsager, Flory, Maier-Saupe}.
Liquid crystalline order in polymers
Annotation
Macroscopic theory: phase transition, influence of external field and surface energy of walls, dielectric and optical properties, hydrodynamics. Statistical physics ( Onsager, Flory, Maier -Saupe).
Liquid crystalline polymers.